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Mock: discuss ideas (strategy)
Match each case in "Mock: discuss ideas (strategy)" to the signal and response that fit it.
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The onsite “discuss ideas” round is a live strategy session: what should Cursor build, in what order and how do you handle the individual-versus-enterprise pull. There's no deck and no warm-up. You bring real opinions and defend them under pushback.
Walk in with a sequenced roadmap, not a list. The shape that lands is two or three paper cuts plus one bigger bet, ordered, with each item tied to something a developer feels: latency, trust, cost or daily usage.
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Sequence the Roadmap by Effort × Impact
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
Ship cheap, high-frequency trust wins first; let the bigger bet de-risk behind them.
Sequencing is the actual test. Saying you'd ship the paper cuts first because they rebuild trust cheaply while the big bet de-risks in the background is a judgment call. A flat list of good ideas is not.
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